Bitcoin: Bitcoin Cash Clash costs cost billions without end in sight

By Olga Kharif The battle for controlling Bitcoin Cash is becoming more expensive. The fourth largest crypto security began to…

By Olga Kharif

The battle for controlling Bitcoin Cash is becoming more expensive.

The fourth largest crypto security began to attract public attention this week when two competing software development teams failed to agree on how to best update the code and ended up splitting the network. The match was quoted Wednesday to contribute to the biggest eight-month reduction for Bitcoin, which Bitcoin Cash had split up from last year.

million a day in lost opportunity the cost of not having its computer manufacturer Bitcoin, according to Jimmy Song, a Bitcoin core developer.

Each has promised to continue winning the so-called Hash war, where “hash” denotes computer power intended for the efforts. While ABC is currently moving forward, according to power dynamics, power balance could still change.

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“Imagine a 100 billion dollar transfer, which you can get by controlling your resources,” says Lex Sokolin, global manager of the Fintech Strategy at Autonomous Research in London. “There is prestige, reputation and power that comes with being the leading party in charge of the decision on the vision and function of the future of money.”

The winner will be able to make tweaks in the software for utility, for example, to design how to reduce coins more efficiently. Other pluses include being able to attract better developers and more miners to join the pool. The controller also has a lot of influence over the coincidence of the coin.

“You can pump the price, you can dump the price, you can run the hash interest in one way or another,” says Travis Kling, founder of the Ikigai hedge fund. Coins, Bitcoin Cash ABC and Bitcoin Cash SV, together contribute significantly less than Bitcoin Cash was worth before the fork, according to Poloniex exchange data. When Bitcoin Cash split from Bitcoin in August 2017, investors actually saw the price of the two coins.

The ABC division is led by the Chinese crypto coin Bitmain and investor Roger Ver, known as Bitcoin Jesus for his early indictment of the original coin. SV, or Satoshi’s Vision, group led by billionaire Calvin Ayre and Craig Wright, the self-proclaimed Satoshi Nakamoto, the anonymous creator of Bitcoin. Wright’s claims have long been questioned in the cryptos community.

Meanwhile, the fight has been expensive for investors who have already seen Bitcoin Cash lose $ 2.75 billion in market value over the past week.